Memorial head of a queen mother | Photographer: Jörg von Bruchhausen
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Memorial head of a queen mother
The large number of commemorative heads from this period are highly formalised. Their faces are largely identical, whereas the royal insignia are more elaborate and their shapes vary; in contrast to the king's round cap, the queen mother wears a pointed, slightly forward-curved cap made of coral beads.
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Plastic
Dimensions
Wandstärke: 0,5 cm
Objektmaß: 47 x 22 x 24 cm
Gewicht: 13,6 kg
Objektmaß: 47 x 22 x 24 cm
Gewicht: 13,6 kg
Material/Technique
Brass, Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 8185
Provenance and sources
where
Benin [kingdom]
when
19th century
where
Nigeria [Land]
who
Eduard Schmidt - Collectors
Description
19th century, commissioned by the Igun Eronmwon or Guild of Brass Casters in the Kingdom of Benin; location unknown in the Kingdom of Benin until 1897; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession after the conquest of the Kingdom of Benin; collected by Consul Eduard Schmidt, employee of the Woermann line, between 1897 and 1898 in the territory of later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1898.
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